When will Jetpack move to Ubuntu 20.04?

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson Systems Jetson Xavier NX
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I received an upgrade for 20.04 while using provided version, so I went ahead and upgrade the version. I am not sure if this is official, should I reflash or keep using what I have sometimes boot up having memory issue

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Hi @salihyildirim , what is the memory issue you get during boot? If it keeps occurring, you could try re-flashing (or flash a second SD card) to see if it goes away. The system upgrade to 20.04 is experimental - @Andrey1984 had a good idea about upgrading his container image to 20.04 so that the core system remained on 18.04 unaffected.

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I am as well kindly asking for an update on the Ubuntu 20.04 option - thanks.

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Is there any news on this?

We would also kindly ask for an official 20.04 compliant jetpack for Jetson AGX Xavier.

Thanks a lot.

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Hi, we don’t have an update on the 20.04 upgrade yet, sorry about that. It requires update to kernel 5.x which the engineering work is ongoing for.

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Looking for 20.04 upgrade here as well, 3 years past and python 3 is now the standard along with all its packages. Please make 20.04 ready.

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Just adding +1 for Ubuntu 20, it’s a must for ROS.

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+1 for ubuntu 20.04. Need to move to ROS2 foxy release

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+1 for Ubuntu 20.04 because of ROS/ROS2 and Python 3.

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@dusty_nv Will the kernel changes be going upstream so we can stay in step with the latest released kernel?

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Ubuntu 20.04 is not required for ROS, you can still build it from source. I have ROS Noetic/Foxy building on 18.04 in these containers: https://github.com/dusty-nv/jetson-containers

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@gtj I believe the Linux Foundation has previously stated they won’t accept the changes which is why the L4T kernel is released the way it is today. We hope in the future to make progress in this area by making it more modular.

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Thanks @dusty_nv . Any chance that sometime in the future the BSP might be made a little more “standalone” in terms of the kernel? By that I mean a package that could be applied to a stock kernel of a certain major revision. It would help us do our own porting to other kernel versions. I realize most of the drivers and device stree stuff are already external but current kernel repo (git://nv-tegra.nvidia.com/linux-4.9.git) has all the integration in it already which makes it a little difficult to deconstruct.

thanks.

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it is March 16, 2021 and I’m in the same trap. I wish I had waited for Intel’s Keem Bay, but as a paperweight it looks great.

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@gtj that is something we are looking into, but it’s a longer-term plan due to the large number of changes required.

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Gotcha. Thanks for the update!

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+1 for Ubuntu 20.04. 18.04 is plagued with problems for which every solution points to upgrading to 20.04.

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As a work-around, perhaps there could be recommended host hardware?

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Has anyone tried the suggestion mentioned by @dusty_nv ? (When will Jetpack move to Ubuntu 20.04? - #27 by dusty_nv )

  1. install 18.04
  2. upgrade to 20.04
  3. (install ROS Noetic)
  4. use Jetson with CUDA, python3, ROS Noetic…
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Please, another +1 for 20.04. I want to run some NX’s in network with my main dev machine which is at 20.04, ROS Noetic & Foxy and also has CUDA Toolkit at v11.
How about a nice present for us all asking - it’s GTC2021 next week, surprise us, thanks.